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Was the daughter of Gurbakhsh Singh Kanhaiya and Sada Kaur. Sada
Kaur persuaded her father-in-law, Jai Singh Kanhaiya, after her
husband had been killed in a show of arms with Mahan Singh Sukkarchakkla,
to betroth her daughter to the son of the Sukkarchakkia chief. The
marriage took place in 1796 with great eclat, but Ranjit Singh failed
to win the affection of Mahitab Kaur for she could not forget the
fact that her father had been killed by the father of her husband.
She lived mostly with her mother at Batala. This estrangement was
complete after Ranjit Singh took Raj Kaur in marriage. Mahitab Kaur
gave birth to three sons-Ishar Singh who died in infancy and the
twins, Sher Singh and Tara Singh. She died in 1813.
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